Childrens

Biggles in Australia – Captain W.E. Johns

Biggles and his Air police foil a communist plot in OZ. Where is he now when we need him? A little foxed but not Biggles!

Published by Hodder and Stoughton, second impression 1956 a year after the first. Octavo, 188 pages, a few marks and a pretty good dust jacket.

Scarce and our favourite Biggles

$50.00

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Biggles Presses On – Captain Johns – 1958

First edition published in 1958 by the Brockhampton Press. A scarce one.

Octavo, 192 pages, coloured frontispiece and five coloured plates by Leslie Stead. Some foxing, and manuscript name on end papers and volume number 50 on title. The jacket announces the fiftieth Biggles.

Biggles investigates a murder on a Pacific Atoll; rescues a Sultan’s son; mink smuggling and an aircraft that disappears!

Biggles would press on wouldn’t he

$40.00

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Biggles in the Blue [Air Adventure in the Caribbean] – Captain Johns – 1954

A second impression of an early Biggles published in 1954 by the Brockhampton Press.

Octavo, 192 pages, coloured frontispiece and five coloured plates by Leslie Stead. Scarce jacket lightly chipped, the odd age mark, over all still a very good copy.

Biggles arch enemy Erich von Stalhein is in Jamaica and up to no good. Biggles and his mates are sent to sort him – and maybe they do.

Biggles in the Caribbean among the blue skies and pink flamingos.

$40.00

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Billabong Riders – Mary Grant Bruce – 1952

This is the first UK edition published in 1952, having been published in Australia in 1942.

An absolutely clean copy with a perfect dust jacket … given the time period of over 70 year something special .. would make great gift.

Octavo, 192 pages, frontispiece like the jacket cover. We have gushed about the quality, put up with a previous owners book label at the front ends.

This is all about the riders of Billabong the authors special place that defines real Australia to many … full of character and characters. Understand it before tall buildings take over.

One for the bush or the curious city dweller.

$35.00

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Mother Goose and Her Friends – Adventures in the Old Woman’s Shoe – Maude Radford Warren and Eve Davenport – illustrated by Charles Federer

Absurdly wonderful book of tales, published by Hodder & Stoughton, first English edition 1923. Large thick octavo, 309 pages, with ten tipped in coloured plates, fancy end papers, coloured plate pasted to front board. A trifle age – really a super copy, by any standards very good for a book now over a century old.

Traditional children’s stories with no prejudice and positive messages and lots of fun. Old King Cole was a merry old soul and Simple Simon’s pieman had a very large pie on his head.

Stories for children that pass the test of time

$50.00

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The Black Bar – George Manville Fenn

A very nice copy of prolific writer George Manville Fenn’s “The Black Bar” a story of the British ship Nautilus patrolling the coast of West Africa deterring American slave ships.

Published by Sampson Low, London, octavo, 312 pages with the odd illustration. No date, a prize label at front suggests 1930’s – at the rear we have a Jules Verne promotion that suggest before 1928. The prized was given in Battery Point – maybe an indicator as to how long it took books to arrive at these distant parts.

Beautifully written as expected from Fenn. The story not at all uncivilised and a reminder of things that go on in the world – to this day.

The Nautilus off the Coast of Africa doing good work ..

$30.00

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Biggles in Australia – Captain W.E. Johns

Biggles Presses On – Captain Johns – 1958

Biggles in the Blue [Air Adventure in the Caribbean] – Captain Johns – 1954

Billabong Riders – Mary Grant Bruce – 1952

Mother Goose and Her Friends – Adventures in the Old Woman’s Shoe – Maude Radford Warren and Eve Davenport – illustrated by Charles Federer

The Black Bar – George Manville Fenn

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